Fisheries committee  It's a difficult thing to quantify because the impact on your market prices is devalued, and there are just so many economic impacts.

Fisheries committee  That is certainly happening here too.

Fisheries committee  MSC is a great example of chain-of-custody traceability. The problem is that it applies to less than 10% of the seafood being sold. Access to safe, honestly labelled and legally caught seafood shouldn't be a luxury; it should be a right that every Canadian has, no matter where th

Fisheries committee  Yes, and they're doing the right thing.

Fisheries committee  MSC is great, yes.

Fisheries committee  We work with Robert Hanner's lab. He's the leading scientist in Canada on this and is part of the sea BOL, the Barcode of Life initiative. “Barcode” means you take a snippet of the DNA, and that snippet, like a bar code, tells you exactly what species you're working with. They're

Fisheries committee  If the committee does study this further, I would recommend bringing Robert Hanner to present as well on this.

Fisheries committee  Exactly. It changes market prices.

Fisheries committee  To go back to the overall statistic, of the mislabelled substitutes that we found, we did find that 30% were vulnerable or threatened species, and that was a variety of species.

Fisheries committee  I'll add that when the United States came up with their seafood import monitoring program, it took 16 departments working together and coming up with recommendations. It is a vital first step to have all of those key players sit down at the table and tackle it together.

Fisheries committee  That's a fantastic question. Certain kinds of shellfish have increased traceability, I think because of the disease and health risks associated with them, but it's a proof of concept that can be applied to make sure that all of the seafood we eat is tracked.

Fisheries committee  Our colleagues didn't look at that specifically, and a cost distribution conversation definitely has to happen with the players. One thing we heard from industry that has included traceability in their business operations, both internationally in those jurisdictions as well as do

Fisheries committee  Really interesting things have been happening around this concept of Fishcoin, the use of blockchain and how money is allocated to incentivize fishers to participate in the program. I can send more information on fishcoin, but there are different ways in which fishers are seeing

Fisheries committee  Yes, it does. Seafood fraud is actually an umbrella term that can also refer to things like overglazing, underweighting and different issues of that sort, where you're pretending there's more fish matter than there is in what you're selling. Oceana's focus on species substituti

Fisheries committee  Yes, all of our numbers are strictly of substituted species: It was one thing on the menu, and from doing did DNA testing we found that it was something completely different. We didn't look at all of the other issues that can be present.